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Taxi b*****es!

63 replies

Jeannie88 · 06/01/2022 18:58

Fuming! Had booked a a taxi to pick me and dh up at 11pm and when we went out 4 women were already plonked in it! I politely said we had booked this, which I confirmed with driver, but honestly brazen b**es wouldn't budge. I explained we had booked it as had to get home for babysitter, who we were paying for by the hour. Still absolutely no caring, just like faces chewing wasps. In my mind's eye I was ripping out the driver's keys and pulling biggest b**h out by her hair, reality I huffed and puffed and dh said not worth the agro. So, driver booked another one, which didn't turn up til 45 mins later and we were outside freezing in our fancy dress costumes while those horrible, selfish smug arseholes buggered off in our taxi!

Wibu - they got it so fair play.
Wibu - yes I should've kicked up a huge stink!

OP posts:
PinkFing · 06/01/2022 18:59

What?! The audacity of them!

gobbledygoook · 06/01/2022 19:00

What?!

The driver should have refused to take them!!

TheDuchessOfBeddington · 06/01/2022 19:09

@gobbledygoook

What?!

The driver should have refused to take them!!

This.

I’d complain to the company.

KO81 · 06/01/2022 19:10

Driver was a useless twat.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 06/01/2022 19:11

Wow! The taxi driver should have refused to take them, I agree. Also, was your DJ’s costume somewhat warmer than yours? It wasn’t for him to unilaterally decide it wasn’t worth the aggro.

If you want to call women bitches you could at least type the word - on that front only yabu

RincewindsHat · 06/01/2022 19:11

Why did the driver take them?! Driver should have got out, turned the engine off and refused to get back in until they got out. Ridiculous.

Natty13 · 06/01/2022 19:14

This has happened to me. I wouldn't close the door until they got out so we had a bit of a standoff as the car couldn't go with me stood in the open door.

BlowDryRat · 06/01/2022 19:17

They were CFs and the driver was spineless.

RosieGuacamosie · 06/01/2022 19:17

Obviously they were out of order but my goodness the way you write does not paint you in a favourable light.

BlowDryRat · 06/01/2022 19:18

This happened to me at a work thing. Summoned an Uber, it pulled up and the CEO and CFO strode past me and my colleague and jumped in Hmm Colleague and I laughed and called another one but it was freezing!

CowMarshland · 06/01/2022 19:20

Do you honestly think they care why you booked the cab?

Cheeseandlobster · 06/01/2022 19:20

Wtf. This made me angry just reading it. The driver should have refused to take them and you should not have backed down. You have basically shown them that this approach actually works.

BigYellowHat · 06/01/2022 19:20

If it was a mini cab then surely he’s not allowed to take them? It’s only black taxis that can pick up randoms.

shouldistop · 06/01/2022 19:22

I'd have kept the door open. The driver should have refused to take them

Onetraumaatatimeplease · 06/01/2022 19:24

I thought that private taxis weren't insured unless pre booked. Definitely complain, unless the rules have changed the driver broke the law, perhaps mention that.

WhenISnappedAndFarted · 06/01/2022 19:24

The driver should have been kicking them out, I'd be complaining to the company

gsaoej · 06/01/2022 19:24

People just take what they want these days. We live in a corrupt world.

Burnamer · 06/01/2022 19:26

YABU for using * in the word bitches. If you want to use it and want us to “read” it then have the gumption to actually write it.

errnerrcallnernnernnern · 06/01/2022 19:34

You should have sat on their laps.

HotToddyColdSauvignon · 06/01/2022 19:36

Complain to the company

dworky · 06/01/2022 19:46

YABU for calling them bitches.

WallaceinAnderland · 06/01/2022 19:46

dh said not worth the agro

There's your problem. Driver would have turfed them out if you'd stuck to your guns.

Morechocmorechoc · 06/01/2022 19:48

Complain to the company you booked through and get the money back for your very very late trip back. Also tell them to train their drivers

Morechocmorechoc · 06/01/2022 19:48

Yabu for letting them get away with it. I wouldn't have let that taxi leave!

Hotyogahotchoc · 06/01/2022 19:50

Would the driver not have supported you if you insisted? 45 mins is a long time to wait.

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